How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
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A Piece of the Action was released in 1977 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 13 reviews, giving A Piece of the Action (1977) an average rating of 67%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 82%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 50%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed A Piece of the Action a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 67%, A Piece of the Action is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1977, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1977 with similar scores include films like The Spy Who Loved Me and The Incredible Hulk.
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